The Sun. — London, England, 1809-02-27 00:00:00

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THE BREST FLEET., Intelligence was yesterday received •by Telegraph, at the Admiralty, that the Brest Fleet, consisting, as it is snppined, of t 0 Sail of the Line, had escaped from Brest bout, tln the night betvcen' Monday and Tuoilay I they were not seen cOnting out, it is known what course they have taken. It ha:i been huppoied by some, (JUL they have gone to Ferrol, to get Out the Spanish Fleet in that port, and we confetti. that we are inclined to adopt that. opinion. Cadiz and 'Martinique have also been mentioned as its probable destination, but as it conk! mu enter the Port of Cadiz, we cannot itnain with what ohjea it could'have been sent tbi ther ; nor 'da we think its destination can be Mar tinique, bectins- we lcilow that considerable supplies have been lately tlitow n into that Island. We have the baiistadion of knovvinJ, that Admiral Lord GAMBIER Torbay, on Tuesday, and that he had received informatton of the escape of the French of cour , :e is gone in pursuit of them. , • _ ,bket muter tlhe cornttrin.l of Lord GAmittritt, gonSis;cd of tile 'following Ships ;---Caledonia, i to, Adtn:tal Lord GA:4onm,' , Capnlin Sir FL BORRARD NUALE, (Captain or the Ilea), Captain Buovotiv; Geofge, too, Vice-Mtniral Sir JOIIN 1:110•'. rags DinnitvOlUrn, Captain DUNN j • 81. (Jorge, 98, Rear•Arituirk ELIAB HARVEY, Captain HILL'iAR j preaciltoriela, 08, ftelr-AldiTliral SOTHeaY, Captain SALT; Teingrair . e„ go, Sir C. HAD4ILTON 14, 81e111C:1,1RP KING , haPetliellAe 74, Captain toitORDS . air/Sag/1 Filth, Captain J,. HANCOCK, Warzpiie, 74, Hon. Captain BLACKWOnD. The ilero,6f g uils,-aiso sailed frptri Torbay on Waiflo,day to join 4ClipiraiGAUßlen. There Can, therefore, !)e no doubt of the issue oVie contest, if hi s bmiship should fail in with them, and we trust the( we 41411 s4ority li4vp to , communicate tp Pur AY3O!.V UK iiilsiiii‘ei!co.of 41 1 ° !bet Naval Testerday-padit and Seville Papers, to the zoth instant, reached town, the contents -of which are of a very gratifyi4 natute. The aceriUnts of the de , feat of the Freneh in their attack,upon Saragossa are confirmed. The attack was made upon the gist ult. The French advanced it seven columns of in fantry, exclusive of cavalry and artillery. After a lard-fought anion of five hours, 'the French were forced to fall back with considerable loss, and their reserve was then brought forward to make a second attempt, but it was equally unsuccessful with the first: The loss of the French is estimated upon this occasion at 4000 men. The French, we are happy to find, have failed in an attack upon the fort of San Josef, with the loss of 800 men, The necessity of faithfully detailing the examina tions before the CoMmons, is felt by us on many accounts. We lament that the great concerns of the Nation should .he impeded by the odious interven tion of swindlers and strumpets; and AVe arc not ,without some ,regret on our own account at being compelled to omit many favours of correspondents, as well as many things which regard us personally, and which tee a4e anxious to submit to the public. —The following notice of the ;officious attack of A. B. in the Morning Chronicle ought to have ap appeared before ; but we could riot possibly And room:— To the EDITOR of tip MORNING CHRONICLE. " Six, " I was sorry to observe, by a letter from Mr. Alexander Baring to the Editor of Tug SUN, (wed the alith instant, and published in your Paper of the 25th, that my accidental adoption of the signature of A. 13. so so: letters, afterwards republished at Ridgway's," Surely the minute accuracy of this Advertisement cannot have escaped the notice of the Stamp-Of ice. At RIDGWAY'S, Piccadilly, the south-side of the way, nearly opposite the crossing into Bond-street Gramercy ! Mons..A. 13, if we have occasion for your six letters" we now know where to find them. " had drawn upon him the imputation of having supported the opinions contained in his most excellent publication" Excellent publication.—Why there it is now 1 "Ka me, l'se ka thee." Mr. ALEX. BARING .tenns the letters of A. B. " most Ocimirable ;" apd, pot to be owdorie in courtesy, Mr, A. B. denominates the pamphlet of A.L.c.x. BARING " most excellent."-- 'Vas there ever so complaisant a pair ! It savours, indeed, a little of the .;qtr dire& ppon their respee. live publications ; but the intensity of feeling ; on so interesting a subject, :a3 the virtues of f‘ yentig Qo lembia7 rdust apologise for the tl apness of desceird ,, log to the artifices of Kntterfelto and Dr. Graham. " respraing our relattous with ,Amerie4, by lettet3 to the ticwvapers. ' may or nay not be true; and, in fa& is not of our cognizaoce, 1 teel no shame in having delitered my opinions upon a most' important national subject through the channel of A newspaper." This we believe. Shame is one of the.last qualities which wo6 should think of attributing to the writer of the letters signed A.B. " An anonymous ciluMniateltof privverharafteristhemast wicked and despectible of mankind ;" No ; there is a chara6ter more wicked and despica, ble still : and that is the anonymous calumniator of a whole people ; the base and hireling slanderer of a generous nation ; the mean and malicious traducer of a too lenient Government. " but, the . greatest Statesmen, and the most celebrated men of all descr►ptions, have communicated their opinions upon Matters of general interest under borrowed named' This is a notable discovery, and worthy of the ge nius of A. IL He seems to think that by adopting two letters at random for his signature, be 'is not to be considered as writing anonymously. Is this a Yankee subterfuge ? " Indeed, when parties run high, there is no other way in which the public cgn be impartially addres)ed." The confidence of A. B. is beyond every thing that we have yet witnessed! He writes a most partial series of ,Letters, in a Opposition Paper, and then tells us, as an escuse, that when parties run high, (which is not the case here, though it be in Ame rica), they can only be addressed, impartially, by an Anonymous Scribbler !! ! Ergo, the Six Letters, if republished at Ridgway's," bear the signature of A. E.' " if Mr. Baring had written) his celebrated pamphlet bcforp my letters were sent in yon, it Would hoc occurred to me to employ a Oilkrent signattrie." It is quite as well as it is : air objc6linn is to the matter of these letters, (which Mr. BARING cordially approves), and not to the signature, which we think not altogether unhappy—. " Indeed, I might have written in my own name, without one person in a thousand in London, or In England, tieing more acquainted with the ,author titan they are at pr, sent with A. B. 64 A. 8... Gramercy, Sir ! and have you crossed the seas, and put, your precious life in hazard, for the gene rous purpose of enlightening the wooden-headed na tives of this " ruined island!" Mr. JEFFERSON, WC trust, will reward you ; for we, alas ! are too stupid to be duly sensible of your kindness, and too poor, as you well know, to repay it. We might, indeed, recommend you to a: certain family which gave a warn) reception to the despicable idiot La VINGSTON R, after he had infamously accused the Government of perfidy and murder, in the French capital.---But we .Leg pardon t you have already found your reward, perhaps, In yont. Success ! After all, your confession is an admirable one. ou cross the seas (the Atlantic,, we will suppose) with your head and your heart full of America; you drop among us as 'a stranger, and a very imper tinent stranger, let us add j you inst)lt the Govern tnent ; you calnmniate the country; and you have the assurance to add, that " this is the only way in which the public (who do not .want you) can be impartially addressed !" If you have any more letters, pray take them to America, and present them to Mr. JEFFERSON : to him they will be welcome, while they only nauseate us, They will not, perhaps, have the effed which they are sapposed to have here, and this, un doubtedly, was what induced you to favour us with them ; but they will be in chara6ler, as nothing can be so grateful to the President's nose as the incense burnt to Buots,iVARTE. Here it is offensive. Before we take our final leave of you, we desite to know on what authority you dare to charge us With ascribing your " six letters" to Mr. A. BARING. Mier observing that there is a trifling error of the press here, and that for onx relations with Aine ride should be read, as more germane toilie mat ter, out relations with .England we beg leave to •add that the ." sorra*" of A. B. though oot pies. tionable, is surely somewhat unaccountable. Before Mr ! . ALEX. BARING so judiciously expressed his exalted opinion-of " the six letters," and his edtire acquiescence in the illiberal and anti-patriotic semi rnents which deform them, the writer might feel something like shame and regret at their being int •puted to a Member of •the British souse of Coin mom; but be must be strangely " used to the melting mood,". if be ceuld spare a single t eat f or the injury offered to him afterwards. tf,' indeed, it bed question of authorship, a jealousy of literary fame, the case is altered; and we sincerely sympa thisewith A. B. who, for us, shall wear in future, without corrival, all his dignities. - ' ,•••• 0, Even supposing such conduit tq be unwprthr of the stridest honour"— (the supposition is not amiss) You have not, it appears, read one word in Lie —" the person who intended toeensutc Ur. Hattng shoto4 ..0 flux respecting it; and yet yon rudely chop in, , h ea d have looked it dates t datesWore he ventureti to qua d all, like a hungry boitnd at breakfast, ansl Ac him." • cuse us of you know. not what !W e know th a t y ou: Bight ! we will look at them bestirs we venture into , and your party never venture to look at us. Y ou r the field again; and perhaps we may also co nsu l t th e souls sicken at the idea of encountering an y thi ng moveable feasts and the eclipses. But, cu} tong? , Javourable to the honour and interests of England ; . Will looking at any of ,these thi n g s change t he dud. You• turn from the blasting sight With h orror . I n tore of stria honour, end make what w a r: unwor4 thy, meritotious f the Lepers of Pppositioo you meet with matter con, - • : . !. The Six letters !drltteu under the signature 9f A. 13. veers genial to yournatures : We have no desire to inter published in The Morning Chromcle befoto the publication r apt your pleasures ; ,but we certainly shall in s i s t of Mr, haring', Pamphlet ; and nuns* have been published • since, Under that Signature, upon the sa me su bj ect ." . upon being Teed before we ar e n e xt accuse d. Next to the blessing of a reasoning head, says e With respel to the observations which provoked profound writer of the last century, is to be coveted i the attacks of Mr. A. lhatwo, and his admirer, that of a calculating one. What would the good we repeat - them with increased confidence. old man have thought of both those heads in one, We sincerely rejoice that Sir FRANCIS BARINg at least , the essential matter of three and that one' wantonly manifested his prejudices by his most :ill% on the shoulders of a Correspondent of the Morn. timed toast ; beca use he converted suspi c i on At tag Chronicle! A. B. is undubitably the prodigy, certainty; and, unless we are mad, will not be call of which the venerable philosopher above Owed , t d a consultation on Trans7Atlantic affairs. We never supposed the existence possible, rejoice .that Mr. A. BARING published his notable lowed this, we may be permitted to ask, in ourturn, what pamphlet ; hecause'it openly espous e d th e d octr i nes may be the precise purport of dila profound of a party, and enabled ua to reduce his opinions to speculation upon dates In all that we have said their true 'purport and value. We rejoice that w of A. B. and his admirers, there is not a syllable have drawn forth these attacks in the Morning Clara that, any mode of reasoning yet adopted, can nick ; !meanie the flattery banded from one writer possibly be brought to to' any point . of. time, to the other, and the cordial adoption of the lan .past, present,, or to come guage and sentiment of each', by each, speak vo " You well know, sir, that I sm not Afr. Alexander Baring, though you do bathtubs! Whirl sm.! , 7 lances to the discerning public, an d puts every well This is a hocus-pocus kind of an assertion, whicl: t wisher to his country completely ox ins GUARD. Yesterday morning his MAJtrrt, Prince sses Au. oUSTA, AMELIA, and MARY, accompatlied by Lady THYNNE, Generals DERUDE, FITZROY, and CALT• WRIGY, rode to St. George's Chapel, and bold Divine Service. Saturday the Duke of Yon waited on his MA JESTY, on particular business; in the afternoon he returned to London. glidayngining his MAJESTY ' the Duke of Cast-. . !!RIDGE, Princesses AUGUSTA, SOPIIIA, and AME LIA, accompanied by Lady ELY, Genetals DEBUDE, CARTWRIGHT, FITZROY, and Colonel TAYLOR, rode in Windsor Park, and returned at twelve o'clock to the Palace. Mr. ADAIR, according .to the Hatnturgh Corre- • spondenten, has been allowed to land at fiestas, on the 'Dardanelles, where a house has been provided for him by the Turkish Government. Yesterday, at two o'clock, a Cabinet Council was held at Burlington House, at which were present his Grace the Duke of PORTLAND, the Loan CHAN.. CELLOE, Earls LIVERPOOL, WESTMORLAND, CHAT. , lIAM, BATHURST, and CAMDEN; Lords MULGRAYE And CASTVEREAGH, Mr. Secretary CANNING, and the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEWCER. The Portuguese in the Brazils have fitted out a formidable expedition against the French Cayenne, of which the noted VICTOR HUSHES is Governor. The Expedition consists of a number of gun-boats and ocher small vess e l s , w i t h a b out 7000 m en. The plan is to land a ch osen h ot ly o f Indians (good marks , men) to windward of Cay enne , to penetra te through the bushes, while the great attac k i s ma de by the gunboats, 6.:c. on the batteri es . V ICTO R HUGHES is said to have a garri son o f fi ve h un d re d men ; but his ordnance is in a bad s t ate , many o f the canuoti. being dismounted. The following very remarkable passage of Mr- PONSONBV'S reply to Mr. CANNVW, on Friday night, not hitherto been reported; we thihk it however wqll deserving the public attention. " The night Hon. ent;ernan (Mr. Canning) had said, that he would not be altained to march in the ranks of Spanish Patriotism„even thoogh they were preceded by the standard di Ferdinand 'tile 7th, and tbe effigies of our Lady of the Pillar; nor should j, added Alr. Ponsooby, be unwilling to fol• low the au , ipices of this Lady, if she were Wit 3 young one ; much of the influence o f a Lady de. , pends upon heryoOth and her beauty, to which qua lilies I fear Our tidy of the Pillar can have but little pretension ; in fah, I doubt that the Spaniards can feel much enthusiasm fur this superanouated dame, whose age may be very respectable but certainly • cannot be very enticing. This Lady of the Pillar reminds me of a mistress of Charles the Seconcl• who had procured a,grant of the Phanix Park PP ( ' Dublin, from the King, but who had been distil„" , pointed of it by the Duk e o f O rmon d , t h en Lo rd Lieutenant of Ireland. This Lady on the omisir having expressed very gr e at di s pl easure to wards t" Duke for his interference, concluded by siling, ! t , ° , . him f 1 hope I may live to s ee y ou l ose yo ur Nix to which the puke drily r e pli e d, Mad Madam , ll6 P e , to live to see you an old :cumuli.' Now, continue d Mr. Ponsonby, our Lady o f t h e Pill ar i s become like ads mistress ofeharlert, Inv old woman, and cannot, ‘ I think - , veri_wol.deselya"the reverence :which the flight Hon. Ge!' Itifinsn Amnia to treat Nit Upon this passage we mate htit One"remark, yi ! that our Lady of the Pillar is the blessed Virgin, 1 4 an objed of,peculiar and enthusiastic veneration, if Pot of adoration, in all Catholic countries, but more particularly •in Spain; in parts of , whiclt , froM ttla tradition of some miraculous circumstances relut i _iVi' to a pillar on which one o f h er i mages stoo d, She ba: should be glad W e received the peculiar and highl venerated tide 7; Our Lady of the Pilla r . to that Mr. Pousotiby was igoorant of - this lat.t. Friday Captain WOODRItP, Agent for Prisoners al War nt Portsmouth, embarked 109 French prisoners of war and aix aliens on board the Dasher Cartel, for Morlaix. They are to be sent to Franca in ex change for the same number captured by Fren cll Cruisers, and released at sea. THE Aars.--,The Afonument to the memory of Sir Itarza ABEECROMEY, whose name will for eve r stand conspicuou s i n t h e , ro ll s of British Heroism, 15 now placed'in St. Paul's-Cathedral, and willloon be • submitted to public , inspection. It is fixed in the, South-west corner, and in a situation which end ' bles the, speaator t 9 view it, to the fullest advantage! Mr; WitsratAcorr. is, the artist to :whom the kw portant task of commemorating the fall of the gal' lant Chief was assigned, and he has perforined the work with such skill as does honour to himself :T" !hearts of the country, as well as to the subject. Toe' point of time is the moment after ' the Hero is supposed to have received the fatal . ball which . de prived his country of one of her most distinguished Commanders. , The General appears to be falling from his horse, and is supported by a Highlander. The likeness of th e General is exatt, the attituit, i 5 appropriate, and there is an expression of t" t t signation whi c h becoMes'a men who knows th 3 hu has discharged his duty, and -that be falls " , u •" nour. The introduction of th e Highlander to ' 1 the expiring Chief, chews -great taste and judgml in the artist, as t h e cos tu me of such a c har:lc-ter more picturesque *than the Englidi military attire , as. it denotes the country Which gave birth to tr , c hero, and as it was natural that such a oharajer would be one of • the first to rush . forward, from the impulse of national pride, as well .ai of h unl l; pity, respe6i, and duty,. to render assistance to su ch a gallant Chief. The figure Of the Highlander is admirablY d e ' signed, and his attitude spirited, natural, ald s t rik d ; The horse is • ' o f a fi ne martial charatter, exhibitss - a warlike action suitable to the occasion'' A figure of a dying Frochmen, -who., to use ' ! " ' d bombast ofcountryinen; is biting' the gra n and grasping his colours in death, is well introdiace d ' and is fuliof cliarader and - expression. A SPII is properly pl ace d a n eac h s id e , t o mar k t h e sce.Pe c ' f „ Wiwi, and they constitute pi&ur e sque supporters 0 f the general group.- The work, altogether, is wor i k h -,Y I of the subjeel, and may be classed with 0 0 ,' efforts of British genius in this province of Ow 4'e , On Saturday se'nnigbt a fire broke out in the of Capt. Robinson, at Tottenha rn T er r a ce, by kol l the house was entirely destroyed; ►.::.,~ •, r